Summer Serenade: Time Break!
August 22, 2025Some music to whip us into shape here this mid-day Friday in California’s Central Valley — hot as shit outside right now with deep, clear sunshine coupled with a 90-degree temp on the way to…
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Songs Appropriate
March 10, 2025Sunny and warm this mid-day Monday here in California’s Central Valley — weather the rain tomorrow today. In place of anything worthwhile, some music pertinent to the shitty-like nowadays. Just remember, it’s not over ’til…
‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’
November 26, 2024Thick-colorless, gloomy-rainy skies bathed in a downer-gray, ash-flavored ambiance this late-afternoon Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley. A few words right up front guaranteed to immediately bring you right down. However, young Neil begs to…
Stevie Nicks And Abortion: ‘Been There, Done That’
October 27, 2024Here on a bright Sunday evening in California’s Central Valley, a musical approach to one of the more-important matters of our nowadays: abortion. And yet, too, with a new voice from an ancient, iconic wonder,…
Sunday Serenade Shelter From The Shit Storm Of The Nowadays
August 11, 2024Instead of shit flying, let’s play some sounds this just-pass-the-noon hour Sunday — the following tunes are not in any particular order of likeability or importance, just an old-fashioned musical flashback list to a better-byte…
Sunday Mini-Serenade Shelter — ‘Summer Sweltering’ Songs
June 30, 2024In a degression in these hardscrabble times, we present a musical respite from the horrors of modern life with some tunes, hopefully, which will perk the summer heat level and make it livable. Here just…
High Half-A-Century — 50th Anniversary Of First Getting Stoned
May 15, 2024Today 50 years ago was also a Wednesday. In those days I was a senior at the University of Florida and was less than a month away from graduating. Although I had the GI Bill…
Dickey Betts — RIP
April 18, 2024One of the greatest guitar pickers ever, Dickey Betts, has died. He was 80. And not only notable in music: Beyond reality when one band would have two, TWO, most-gifted guitarists — Betts and Duane…
Sunday Serenade Shelter: Flashback ’90s Alt Rock — ‘Woo Hoo’
April 7, 2024Instead of a dirge let’s get simple and nostalgic this Sunday early evening with some wonderful, wondrous alternate rock from the year 1997, and a flashback to a nice, seemingly more-easier time. The 1990s were…
Please, Please Buy My Novel — Part Unlimited
February 25, 2024Let’s go beyond the horror of life in the nowadays and throw out another pitch for my novel, “Brown-Eyed Girl With A Cold Corona,” self-published two years ago via Outskirts Press, and offer up yet…